nrp wrote:
The Governor of MN just signed us up for 20% alcohol over the next few
years. Soon we'll be able to drink the stuff......

There is a range and max power output penalty for use of alcohol since
it has only about half the energy density of pure hydrocarbon fuel.


It's worse than that, nrp.

Alcohol is hygroscopic. It's going to suck all the water out of the air
that it can, basically destroying that tightly controlled combustion
even there in the cylinder. Someone needs to tell the politicians
pushing the farms subsidies that "wet wood don't burn good"

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This is by far the hardest lesson about freedom. It goes against
instinct, and morality, to just sit back and watch people make
mistakes. We want to help them, which means control them and their
decisions, but in doing so we actually hurt them (and ourselves)."